The fact is that the Sox FO has been a multi-headed beast since Henry bought the team, and as fans it doesn't get spelled out for us who did what, so we have to draw our own conclusions based on the circumstantial evidence.
That's why I was comparing it to the Buch-Miley speculation.
A parallel to this speculative discussion is the ones we have often had about which moves Ben was responsible for and which he was not responsible for.
I would interpret what he said as that he was involved in the trade rumors.
The whole Buch-or-Miley thing seems to hang on one tweet from Ken Rosenthal.
It's a rumor-a plausible one, but a rumor.
We don't know what the exact discussions with the M's were, but the whole gist of this argument should really be, who was a better commodity at the time, Miley or Buchholz? And harmony laid out a convincing case for why it was Miley.
Harmony is cagey though. He points out that 'Buchholz-Miley choice' was never confirmed, only speculated. But then he makes a case for why the M's would have preferred Miley given the choice.